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The instruction to registrars that workhouse deaths should show a place of death that looked like an ordinary address dates from around 1920. Note that "looked like" implies that it didn't have to be a real address.

I assume I could find those instructions on the well known workhouse website.

Ernest W HORBURY's wife Elsie may also be a clue. Ernest W HORBURY married Elsie FLETCHER in March qtr 1927 at Warwick reg district. Elsie FLETCHER is in the 1911 census of Everton, Lancashire described as a Hospital Nurse living in the Mill Road Infirmary Nurses Home. Ernest Wright HORBURY died on 7 November 1954 at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire (National Probate Calendar) and Elsie survived him.

I now have more confirmation that Basing House was the Whittlesey Workhouse. I have obtained the DC of a relative on which the informant is George Rowley. The 1911 census shows he was the Master of the Workhouse. RG14 PN9279 RG78 PN498 RD186 SD1 ED8 SN98. Yay!